1 online resource (xiv, 482 pages, [16] pages of plates) :

Includes bibliographical references (pages 460-470) and index

Part I. Down the road from Arianna to Zauberflöte (c. 1600-1800). The birth of Italian opera ; The opera business, Italian style ; Opera crosses the Alps -- and the Channel ; Cultural confluence in Mozart's Vienna -- Part II. Revolution and Romanticism, (c. 1800-1860). Napoleon and Beethoven ; After Napoleon : opera as politics, art, and business ; Opera reaches New York -- and the wider frontier ; L'Opéra ; Fires of London -- Part III. Opera Resurgens (c. 1860-1900). Culture and politics in Central and Eastern Europe ; New York's Gilded Age ; Prima la donna ; The lion tamers : the ascendancy of the conductor -- Part IV. Opera in war and peace (c. 1900-1950). Opera goes West ; Spreading the message ; Repercussions of war ; Opera under the dictators ; Total war -- Part V. The globalization of opera (c. 1945- ). Emerging from apocalypse ; Building opera in America ; Opera goes global ; New ways of presenting old works ; The show must go on ..

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